“I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood.”
“We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: "I did it myself!”
“I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.”
“The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...”
“Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.”
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.”